Design Collections is the new space of Finestre sull'Arte dedicated to lovers of design and contemporary living. Insights dedicated to the forms and lines that have made the history of Italian style, but also many suggestions to discover how the world of design is evolving today. A space dedicated to home accessories, furniture, interior design and installations. Insights and articles edited always with the quality and rigor that distinguish the proposal of Finestre sull'Arte.
ByRedazione | 06/12/2023
At Villa Necchi Campiglio in Milan, an exhibition tells the story of Gio Ponti's Trionfo da Tavola. The sculptural work has been exceptionally set up in the dining room of the house museum, until January 28, 2024.
ByElena Tartari | 05/12/2023
It is the classic bistro chair, but not only that: the Thonet Chair No. 14, one of the great design classics, also revolutionized production in its field.
ByRedazione | 04/12/2023
Triennale Milano will dedicate monographic exhibitions in 2024 to Alessandro Mendini, Gae Aulenti, Roberto Sambonet, and Elio Fiorucci. And after more than 30 years it will reactivate the Study Center.
ByRedazione | 22/11/2023
For sale in Milan at 595,000 euros is the... TOILETPAPER Living, the world's first apartment in which images signed by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari entirely occupy the spaces. A 75-square-meter loft on Via Luigi Canonica.
ByElena Tartari | 20/11/2023
The Grillo telephone, designed by Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper in 1966, revolutionized the way of telephoning: in fact, it was the first telephone that allowed the user to move around in space, since all the elements of the device were incorporated into a single body.
ByRedazione | 10/11/2023
Through February 2024 at the ADI Design Museum in Milan, design is read through twentieth-century music: a series of themed evenings explore the relationship between music and design.
ByRedazione | 08/11/2023
From November 6 to 20, 2023, the spaces of the ADI Design Museum in Milan will host an exhibition on the... history of the bathroom, celebrating 50 years of the historic magazine il Bagno Oggi e Domani.
ByElena Tartari | 25/10/2023
Among Vico Magistretti's masterpieces, Atollo (1977) is one of the most celebrated design lamps, which stood out for its simple forms that actually conceal great complexity.
ByElena Tartari | 14/10/2023
The Fiat 500 has a very long history, longer than people think, and today it is rightfully considered an icon of Italian design (it even won the Compasso d'Oro). And it is still a current vehicle.
ByRedazione | 09/10/2023
Andrea Branzi, one of the fathers of Italian design, an internationally renowned architect and artist, passed away today at the age of 85.
ByRedazione | 29/09/2023
An exhibition dedicated to the relationship between the great architect and designer Ettore Sottsass and photography. It is titled Ettore Sottsass. Design Metaphors and is scheduled from September 29, 2023 to April 21, 2024 at the Milan Triennale.
ByS. F. | 28/09/2023
It is one of the most famous chairs in the history of Italian design: the 832 Luisa chair by Franco Albini, designed in 1939 and then modified until 1955, is a classic as well as an archetypal chair. And it is still in production today.
ByRedazione | 28/09/2023
The ADI Design Museum in Milan is hosting the exhibition ART COLORS DESIGN / Salvati and Tresoldi x Saporiti Italia from October 7 to 22, 2023. Ten years of intense collaboration between Saporiti Italia, a historic Italian design company, and Studio Salvati and Tresoldi.
ByS. F. | 20/09/2023
The Zizì monkey is one of Bruno Munari's best-known design objects: made in 1952, it represents the idea that design can also be a tool to stimulate children's imagination. So much so that it won the Compasso d'Oro award in 1954.
ByRedazione | 18/09/2023
The publishing house Johan & Levi, known for its quality production on art, today launches a new series dedicated to design: it is called 'The Amateur's Library' and will have titles devoted to the great figures of 20th-century design, architecture and decorative arts.
ByRedazione | 05/09/2023
From Sept. 8 to Sept. 19, the Renaissance cloister of Sant'Agostino in Cortona will display designer furniture from Giovanni Raspini's Animalist Design line: pieces inspired by the world of animals and nature.
ByRedazione | 29/08/2023
Discover the history of design by playing. This is the goal of the exhibition-game 'Clocked. This is not an escape room. On the history of design,' scheduled at the ADI Design Museum in Milan from Oct. 4 to 29. It is played by teams: here's how it works.
ByElena Tartari | 21/08/2023
Nathalie, a design masterpiece by Vico Magistretti, is the first modern textile bed, an icon that has marked the history of furniture. Here is how it came into being and the principles that inspired it.
ByS. F. | 09/08/2023
Few objects have revolutionized the history of design as Marcel Breuer's celebrated Wassily chair. It is the masterpiece of the young Bauhaus architect: created in 1925, Wassily is still a relevant and contemporary object today.
ByElena Tartari | 31/07/2023
At the end of the 1960s, the young architects of Superstudio revolutionized design and Made in Italy with the idea that the shape of objects should be determined by the way they stand in space. Thus Misura furniture was born, later produced by Zanotta under the name Quaderna.
ByRedazione | 17/07/2023
Third edition of the Barcelona Prize, a residency program dedicated to sustainable design issues and aimed at two young designers specializing in the field, in collaboration with IED Barcelona. Call for applications launched.
ByRedazione | 11/07/2023
The rich documentary heritage of historic Murano glassmaker Seguso Vetri d'Arte is online, thanks to the Giorgio Cini Foundation's Center for Glass Studies. An archive of more than 30 thousand images.
ByRedazione | 01/07/2023
From July 1 to August 2023, the IN'EI Gallery in Venice presents the exhibition "The Floating Realm," which invites all visitors to return to the play, dreams and feelings of the floating realm of childhood.
ByS. F. | 30/06/2023
Among the most popular sunglasses ever, Ray-Ban Wayfarer are one of the most iconic designer wearables. However, their greatest popularity came 30 years after their market launch. Here is the history of this object with undisputed appeal.
ByS. F. | 05/06/2023
The La Marie chair, designed by Philippe Starck for Kartell, is one of the most important design objects to have appeared in recent years: the world's first completely transparent chair, it represents the archetypal chair, with its minimal, almost ethereal forms.
ByRedazione | 07/05/2023
In Veneto, a design studio founded the Iconoclastic project: a series of handmade and hand-painted designer ceramics that rework a cult object such as sneakers and mythological figures of muses.
ByS. F. | 04/05/2023
In 1994 Alessandro Mendini presented Anna G, the now classic corkscrew in the shape of a woman, which became a symbol of the playful design that took hold in that era.
ByRedazione | 02/05/2023
Nanda Vigo's first retrospective exhibition in Switzerland is on view at the Municipal Museum of Modern Art in Ascona until June 25, 2023. Through forty works, the exhibition aims to analyze the salient stages of the artist's entire creative journey.
ByRedazione | 27/04/2023
In Gorizia, Palazzo Attems Petzenstein is hosting until August 27, 2023 a major exhibition that aims to reread the myth of Italian Style in the light of fashion and design.
ByRedazione | 18/04/2023
An installation by MR Digital and Stefano Boeri, presented for Milan Design Week 2023, imagines what the classrooms of the future will look like: healthy, safe environments that will foster concentration, inclusion, technology and sharing.
ByRedazione | 18/04/2023
Fantini Mosaics has promoted a creative competition for young talents, in collaboration with the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. An exhibition with the selected and awarded works will be held from April 18 to 23 in the Magnolia Courtyard.
ByRedazione | 18/04/2023
From April 20 to 23, in conjunction with Design Week 2023, Pandolfini presents Design Spotlight in Milan: a selection of furniture and objects by some of the names that have made history in Italian and international design.
ByAndrea Laratta | 18/04/2023
10 design places in Milan: here's what to see in an itinerary among must-see places.
ByRedazione | 17/04/2023
From April 17 to 26, it will be possible to take a ride on SWING, the giant swing that Stefano Boeri designed for Milan Design Week. Just go to the Pharmacy Courtyard of the State University.
ByRedazione | 17/04/2023
For Design Week it will be possible to walk on water in Milan: in fact, The Sea Deck, the floating platform by Michele De Lucchi and AMDL for Azimut Yachts, arrives in Darsena. You will only be able to get on it barefoot. And it is all made of recyclable material.
ByRedazione | 17/04/2023
Which installations to see in Milan for Design Week 2023: here are 15 not to be missed.
ByRedazione | 16/04/2023
Galleries opening exhibitions during Design Week in Milan: here are 20 events to mark in your diary.
ByRedazione | 17/03/2023
It is titled "Thinking Factories" the project that, with an exhibition from March 24 to June 4, 2023 and a series of meetings, will introduce Bergamo and Brescia through Design and their Compasso d'Oro awards, all on display at the Sala delle Capriate in the heart of Bergamo's Città Alta.
ByS. F. | 16/03/2023
In the mid-1950s, the Solari company in Udine involved designer Gino Valle to design a revolutionary electromechanical watch: the Cifra 5.
ByS. F. | 10/03/2023
Designed in 1987, the Tolomeo lamp, produced by Artemide, is one of the most successful design lamps, and this is thanks to the innovations introduced in this product by designer Michele De Lucchi and designer Giancarlo Fassina.
ByRedazione | 08/03/2023
From April 17 to 23, 2023, during the Milan Fuorisalone, in the context of Alcova, the exhibition "This is Denmark. A design playlist" will showcase the essence of Danish design. The immersive installation offers a journey of discovery of Denmark through the projects of the 15 participating companies.
ByRedazione | 08/03/2023
From April 4 to May 2023, "The Age of Metals," an exhibition dedicated to the story of artist, poet, planner and designer Alessandro Mendini, opens to the public at M77 Gallery.
ByRedazione | 02/03/2023
Brera Design Week 2023, the widespread event in Italy's most important design promotion district now in its 14th edition, is scheduled from April 17 to 23. On the calendar 240 events to reflect on the challenges of contemporaneity.
ByVittoria Coen | 24/02/2023
Only in Italy is there the moralistic idea that there is an art with a capital "a" and a type of cultural expression, design, that has as its goal only large-scale industrial production. In reality, the relationship between art and design has very deep historical roots.
ByS. F. | 23/02/2023
The Sacco Armchair, born in 1968 from the inspiration of three young designers, is the most revolutionary seat ever, a symbol of Italian design that aspired to freedom and lightness.
ByS. F. | 14/02/2023
Designed in 1981, Ettore Sottsass's Carlton is one of the most famous creations of the Memphis Group, the postmodernist design movement that innovated the way objects are made.
ByRedazione | 14/02/2023
Unprecedented collaboration between well-known fashion house Longchamp and Dutch design brand Fatboy, who together are making an inflatable, eco-responsible pouf: it's called Glamping O and is already available.
ByRedazione | 05/02/2023
February 9-12 Courmayeur Design Week is scheduled, featuring installations signed by leading national architectural firms, talks, installations, photos and events in the center and at the summit of Mont Blanc.
ByS. F. | 03/02/2023
The first portable typewriter. Olivetti's Lettera 22 was a machine that revolutionized writing. As well as being an inimitable design object.
ByS. F. | 30/01/2023
One of the best-known lamps of the 21st century, Ferruccio Laviani's Bourgie immediately established itself as one of the most interesting design objects of the new millennium because of its baroque forms and irony.
ByS. F. | 27/01/2023
Philippe Starck's Juicy Salif is certainly the most bizarre juicer in history. Often pointed to as an example of nonfunctional design, it has nevertheless been a great success. Here's why.
ByRedazione | 26/01/2023
Triennale Milano pays tribute to Milanese architect and designer Angelo Mangiarotti with a retrospective from January 27 to April 23, 2023. The exhibition design features the participation of Renzo Piano.
ByRedazione | 26/01/2023
From January 28 to April 30, MUST in Vimercate is dedicating an exhibition to the figure of Bruno Munari, a great artist and designer: it is titled "Munari, Art to the Future."
ByRedazione | 24/01/2023
Greek-American design duo Objects of Common Interest created an installation for Piazza della Libertà in Bergamo: it is called "Lights on" and was unveiled at the opening of the events of the Italian Capital of Culture 2023.
ByRedazione | 20/01/2023
Triennale Milano is dedicating an exhibition to Ettore Sottsass from January 20 to April 2, 2023, focusing on the use of words in the production of the great architect and designer.
ByS. F. | 20/01/2023
An object-symbol of 1960s design, Gae Aulenti's Pipistrello lamp is much more than a device for emitting light: for the great designer, it is a form that must dialogue with space.
ByS. F. | 16/01/2023
The Moka Bialetti was one of the most innovative products of Italian design: not only an invention that revolutionized the way coffee was prepared, but also an icon of Italian-made products. And today it is the coffee maker of the latest romantics.
ByRedazione | 13/01/2023
The 1950s as a period of economic and cultural rebirth: in Gorizia, from March 21 to August 27, the exhibition "Italia Cinquanta. Fashion and Design. Birth of a Style" traces the period when Italian Style and Made in Italy were born, from Roberto Capucci to Giò Ponti.
ByS. F. | 11/01/2023
Perhaps the most famous lamp in history, Arco, designed in 1962 by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, has become a design icon over the years and has been considered a work of art. Here's why, and the reasons for its popularity.